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The Civil Protection Department has asked people to avoid Santa Maria Estate as they battle a gas leak from a bowser with the situation expected to take several more hours to be brought under control.
Three houses were evacuated...

The findings of the Venice Commission on the rule of law in Malta were yet another condemnation of the Muscat government by an international institution, yet the government was again trying to spin this into a certificate of good practice,...

The European Union agreed on Monday a compromise over how sharply to curb carbon dioxide emissions from cars and vans, finally settling differences between car-producing countries and more environmentally conscious lawmakers.
"We reached a...

Sarah Carabott

African medical staff, international surgeons and Maltese benefactors have come together to fight breast cancer in Ghana, where 70 per cent of women are diagnosed too late.
Cancer interventions are carried out at a new specialised clinic within...

"Justice" is what most people sought on Merriam-Webster, among the world's most popular dictionaries, as the US publisher named that principle of being fair as the Word of the Year for 2018.
Users looked up the word 74 per cent more often than in...

A hive of honeybees in the heart of New York City, a monkey with a photographer's eye, a brothel full featuring robotic sex dolls and a political candidate who carried the day from his grave were among the characters featured in the strangest...

Keith Micallef

A gate at the Armed Forces of Malta’s shooting range, the subject of a banter that reportedly led to a soldier’s dismissal, did not cost thousands but in the region of €500, according to Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia.
Moreover, claims by...

Ivan Martin

The Venice Commission’s full opinion on Malta’s rule of law will be a "point of reference" for the planned Constitutional Convention, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Monday.
In a recorded video message, played to reporters on Monday afternoon...

Reuters

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday she would bring her Brexit deal back to parliament for a vote in mid-January, pledging to get assurances from the European Union to break the deadlock over Britain's departure from the bloc.
After a...

Claire Caruana

Eight sports clubs have applied to commercialise their facilities, the Education Minister confirmed, saying one was already granted “preliminary authorisation”.
Times of Malta reported last month that retail outlets would be replacing the present...

Ivan Martin

A new shelter will open next year aimed at helping victims of domestic violence re-integrate in society.
Elaine Pavia, the head of services at the Dar Merħba Bik shelter in Balzan, told Times of Malta the new facility would be up and running in...

Egypt has unveiled a well-preserved 4,400-year-old tomb decorated with hieroglyphs and statues south of Cairo and officials expect more discoveries when archaeologists excavate the site further in the coming months.
The tomb was found in a buried...

A worker was hospitalised on Monday afternoon after bricks fell on him at a construction site in Triq Sant’Antnin, Żabbar.
The police said the 47-year-old Pakistan man, who lives in Sliema, suffered grievous injuries.
Police investigations are...

Maltese MEP David Casa has led the fifth round of negotiations between EU institutions on a proposed directive that will improve leave entitlement for parents and carers.
He said the proposed legislation would set a minimum of 10 days leave for...

Maltapost is in talks with the authorities for a review of tariffs which have been frozen for years, making the cost of mail services in Malta the lowest in the EU but causing the company a slide in its profitability.
In a statement on Monday,...

President Donald Trump and Congress, embroiled in a feud over his proposed US-Mexico border wall, have only five days to reach a deal before a partial government shutdown could leave about a quarter of the federal workforce without...

Works on converting the Embassy complex in Valletta into a four-star hotel will start in three weeks' time, the developers said on Monday.
The building will retain its current height but will become a six-storey, 81-room hotel with a rooftop...

A man offered a shopkeeper sex with two different females in lieu of payment for goods from his shop, the court heard on Monday.
The customer allegedly went there a third time and held up the Santa Venera grocery shop at gunpoint on December...

Sarah Carabott

Warning of ‘digital extinction’ of the Maltese language, Nationalist MEP Francis Zammit Dimech is calling on small states to prioritise language technology.
“It is our [policymakers’] responsibility to ensure the Maltese language is well...

Reuters

A second Brexit referendum would do "irreparable damage" to politics and "break faith" with the British people, Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Monday, rejecting what some see as the only way to break an impasse.
After a tumultuous week in...